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VOL. 19. No. 13.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, JULY 29, 1938.
Subscription Price $1.50 Per Year
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YOUR COMMENCEMENT
JAMES A. PIPERI EXPRESSES TO THE MEMBERS OF
APPRECIATION
ORGANIZED LABOR
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Blasting Feats In Building Tun-
nels and Dams Will Be Broadcast
in “Americans At Work” Program
Over Columbia Network Aug. 4.
Bakers Local No. 407 To Give
Anniversary Smoker On Aug. 6
Communists, Fascists and Nazi Groups Will Be Investigated
By Representative Martin Dies" Committee of Seven Con-
gressmen. Organizations Asked for Pertinent Information.
life of the human being, and that man is
a pawn of the government, rather than
the American conception that government
is created for the benefit of mankind.”
In announcing the beginning of the
investigation Congressman Dies said re-
presentatives of patriotic, labor, fraternal
and civic organizations will be asked to
present any pertinent information they
may have at the first hearings. The fol-
lowing persons have been invited to test-
ify: John P. Frey, president of the Metal
Trades Department of the American Fed-
eration of Labor; Homer L. Chaillaux,
director of the National Americanism
Commission of the American Legion;
Victor E. Deveraux, director- of the Na-
tional Americanism Department of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars; Walter S. •
Steel, of the American Coalition of Pat-
riotic Societies, and Homer Martin, cheif
of the Automobile Workers’ Union, C. I.
O. affiliate.
“Serious charges have been made that
certain groups are engaged in activities
that threaten our American system of po-
litical and social life,” Mr. Dies said in
commenting on the scope of the hearings.
“If charges are proved false, the groups
involved will be olbsolved. If charges are
proved true, the committee will recom-
mend remedial legislation.”
In addition to Chairman Dies, the com-
mittee consists of the following Rep-
resentatives : Arthur D. Healey, Massa-
chusetts : John J. Dempsey, new Mex-
ico; Joe Starnes, Alabama; Harold G.
Mosier, Ohio; Noah M. Mason, Illinois;
J. Parnell Thomas, New Jersey.
REGULAR MEETING OF THE
GALVESTON LABOR COUNCIL
AMERICAN
FEDERATION
OF LABOR
Respectfully submitted,
C. H. LINDBERG, Sect’y,
Galveston Labor Council.
in that city to become affiliated with
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Pennsylvania High Court
Voids 44-Hour-Week Law
CIVIL SERVICE ORDER
INCLUDES ONLY 70,000
By AFL News Service.
Harrisburg, Pa.—The supreme court
of Pennsylvania decided that the 44-
hour week law passed by the last ses-
sion of the state legislature violated
the state constitution. The law con-
ferred upon the secretary of labor and
industry authority to exempt, after ap-
propriate hearings, certain industries
from the provisions of the law. The
supreme court held that this power to
grant exemptions was a delegation of
legislative authority expressly prohib-
ited by the state constitution.
UNUSUAL RELIEF FUND
FRAUD IS UNCOVERED
THE DYNAMITER'S JOB
DRAMATIZED BY RADIO
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THE SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA
PROBE IS TO BEGIN AUGUST 11
LOCAL VOICE
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Ohe LCnion Review
Official Organ of Galveston Labor Council, Dock and Manne Council,
and Affiliated Unions
Endorsed by the Texas State Federation of Labor
ELMER F. ANDREWS IS CHIEF
OF WAGES AND HOURS LAW
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President Roosevelt’s Appointee Has Been New York Industrial
Commissioner For Five Years; Is Equipped With Broad Ex-
perience in Wages and Hours Problems.
who could do this work and who had
submitted bids as low as that bid sub-
mitted by the Austin Bridge Co.
There was a motion made and sec-
onded that the secretary of the Council
write a letter of protest to Mr. E. J.
Rhiner, assistant associated civil en-
gineer, 8th District, protesting the let-
ting of this -contract to the Austin
Bridge Co. Which letter is as follows:
July 26, 1938.
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By AFL News Service.
Washington, D. C.—The appointment
by President Roosevelt of Elmer An-
drews, Industrial Commissioner of New
York State, to be Administrator of the
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, pop-
ularly called the “Federal Wages and
Hours Act,” places the important func-
tions set forth in that measure in the
hands of a man well-equipped by ex-
perience to handle many problems con-
nected with a law which establishes a
floor below which wages in interstate
industries cannot go and a ceiling beyond
which the length (of the work week can-
not rise.
Mr. Andrews was Deputy Industrial
Commissioner of New York State when
Miss Frances Perkins was Industrial
Commissioner, from 1929 to 1933, and
-became head of the State Labor De-
partment when President Roosevelt
appointed Miss Perkins to the position
of Secretary of Labor.
A native of New York, Mr. Andews
is 48 years of age and lives with his wife
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By AFL News Service.
New York, N. Y.—The Columbia
Broadcasting System announced that
the work of the “Dynamiter,” whose
dangerous blasting makes it possible to
build our tunnels, dams and countless
other huge engineering projects, will
be dramatized by “Americans At
Work” in its broadcast over the Col-
lumbia network Thursday, August 4,
10:30 to 11:00 p. m. (EDST.)
Two of the foremost authorities in
this country, on large dynamite shots,
Sam Russell and J. W. Koster, du
Pont technical men, will be interviewed
in Columbia’s New York studios in the
first half of the -program, and several
highlights in their colorful careers will
be dramatized as well.
The second fifteen minutes will be
broadcast from a tunnel construction
job in New York City. Listeners will
hear dynamite charges being exploded,
as the CBS commentator describes the
dynamiter actually at work.
Probably the most extraordinary
blasting job Russell ever did was at
the dam constructed over the Sague-
nay River at Chutes a Caron, in the
province of Quebec. This incident will
be one of those dramatized during the
broadcast.
The stream at Chutes a Caron was
so swift that construction in the river
was impossible. Upon Russell’s advice,
the dam was built in the form of a
concrete obelisk straight up in the air
92 feet high, 45 feet wide and 40 feet
thick. The side facing the river was
molded to a profile of the river bed.
When finished it was Russell’s job
to calculate the amount of dynamite
needed to barely tip over this 11,000
tons of concrete into the river without
shattering it. His calculations were
perfect, and the dam settled neatly in-
to the river bed.
“Americans At Work” is one of the
adult education series which the Co-
lumbia. Broadcasting System is pre-
senting under the guidance of the CBS
Adult Education Board, of which
Lyman Bryson, professor of education
at Teachers 'College, Columbia Univer-
sity, is the chairman, and of which
Spencer Miller, Jr., director of the
the Workers Education Bureau, is a
member.
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You have truly won a wonderful vic-
tory. I want to thank you for your
loyal and sincere help in my campaign
for representative, 17th Legislative
District, -and I sincerely ask for your
help and assistance in the run-off pri-
mary to be held on August 27, so that
our victory shall have been fully com-
plete. With the -best of wishes to you
all and with my sincere and whole-
hearted thanks, I remain,
Sincerely,
T. R. (Ted) ROBINSON.
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and three children at Flushing. He grad-
uated from Rensselaer Polytechnic In-
stitute in 1915, and in the next few years
built railroads in Cuba and New York,
worked for compensation-rating groups
and piloted army planes during the World
War. In the nine years he has been with
the N. Y. State Labor Department he has
seen the personnel grow from 1600 to
7,900.
He also served as a’ labor adviser for
the National Labor Board in the coal
mining districts of Alabama, Kentucky
and Pennsylvania in 1933. In 1934, Pres-
ident Roosevelt sent him to Geneva,
Switzerland, as head of the American
observers at the International Labor Con-
ference. As the results of his report, the
United States Government became a
member of the International Labor Or-
ganization of the League of Nations.
As Industrial Commissioner of New
York, Mr. Andrews was largely re-
sponsible for that State’s Minimum Wage
Law for women, extension' of unemploy-
ment insurance and workmen’s compensa-
tion.
ried. Meeting adjourned at
o’clock p. m.
By AFL News Service.
Washington, D. C.—Reperesentative
Martin Dies of Texas chairman of the
House Committee of seven members to
investigate “un-American propaganda and
activities,” announced that the committee
would begin hearings here on August 11.
According to the House resolution
setting up the committee it has for its
purpose an investigation of the following
subj ects:
“1. The extent, character and objects of
un-American activities in the United
States;
“2. The diffusion within the United
States of subversive and un-American
propoganda that is instigated from for-
eign countries or of a domestic origin and
which attacks the principle of the form
of government as. guranteed by our con-
stitution :
“3. All other questions in relation there-
to that would aid Congress in any neces-
sary remedial legislation.”
The dictatorship operated by Stalin in
the Soviet Union, Hitler in Germany and
Mussolini in Italy are not specifically
mentioned in the resolution, but accord-
ing to Representative Dies a thorough in-
vestigation of the Nazi, Fascist and Com-
munist movements is the aim of the
probe. When the House of Represent-
atives adopted the resolution, he said:
“I regard Communism and Nazi-ism
and Fascism as having and underlying
principle—dictatorship—the theory that
government should have the right to
control the lives, the fortunes, the hap-
piness, the beliefs, and every detail of the
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Little Sister: (You’re still just a little girl,
’Twas only yesterday I combed your hair to curl;)
I look in awe as you are marching down the aisle—
Suddenly grown tall—in tasseled cap and girlish
smile.
The long gown reminds me of your childish play
When: “Sister, may I use your purse and gloves
today?”
Those curls, now so perfect and in place
Make me smile as I see your baby face
With hair blown loose by wind and rain—
To me, you’re just a little girl again.
Now, I hear your voice—so sweet and clear
Above the chorus of your classmates dear;
And in the echo drifting back to me.
Again I see you as a little girl of three.
Thru’ these years we’ve shared so many things—
Our hopes, our secrets, our trusts, our dreams.
I still remember how your hurt and cried
When, my fondest dreams had withered and died.
And how in your childish but understanding way
You told me how the sun would shine, again, some
day.
Now the last sweet echo of your commencement
song—
I remember—and as I look, the litte girl is gone.
I see you walking slowly-—lips apart—
Clasping your diploma near your heart.
Oh, surely this is just a dream—but then.
Clearly sweet I hear your voice again.
Words of hope, of faith, and eagerness—
To your class you give your salutatory address
My eyes grow misty thru’ the brian of tears
As I behold the wonder of seventeen short years.
Now you leave the stage, and coming down the aisle,
Your eyes are like two stars, above that familiar smile. •
Thru’ a hazy mist, I rise to follow you,
But thru’ my tear-wet eyes—you are lost from view.
You’re gone—out into a world that you will build;
To seek alone, the place your life will fill.
I cannot go with you—nor point the way.
You must go on alone—until that day
Two souls shall meet, and love will make you one
And then, my dear, for two young hearts,
“Life will have just begun ”
—Doris Lewis Bangeman, 801 39th St., Galveston.
James A. Piperi, candidate for jus-
tice of the peace, Precinct No. 1, Court
B, made the following statement yes-
terday: “I wish to thank the voters of
Galveston for the splendid margin of
votes given me over my opponents in
last Saturday’s election. I have no po-
litical enemies to punish, nor do I bear
malice toward anyone that did not vote
for me, believing that everyone has a
right for their friends just as my
friends voted, for me. I wish to take
this means of thanking all my friends
that have supported me and for their
many kind words of encouragement
and nice things they have said for me.
“It has been a truly interesting cam-
paign, and I have enjoyed every min-
ute of it and look forward to the com-
ing runoff with a great deal of pleas-
ure because it will give me the oppor-
tunity to meet and make many more
friends.”
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By AFL News Service.
Washington, D. C.—The unofficial
statement that President Roosevelt’s ex-
ecutive orders of June 24 extending the
merit system in Government service
brought approximately 130,000 hitherto
exempt positions under competitive civil
service requirements appears to have
been greatly exaggerated.
President Harry P. Mitchell of the
Civil Service Commission now estimates
that only about 70,000 government work-
ers would be blanketed into the civil
service under the president’s orders. Mr.
Mitchell said his estimate was still guess-
work and that no exact figures would
be available until the Civil Service Com-
mission makes its report to the president
which must be submitted within three
months after the date of the executive
orders.
Mr. E. J. Rhiner,
Asst. Associated Civil Engineer,
U. S. Engineering Dept, 8th Dist.
City.
Dear Sir:
At the last meeting of the Galveston
Labor Council, July 25, 1938, .the dele-
gates assembled at this meeting were
privileged to hear the emphatic pro-
test as registered by the Operating En-
gineers and the Carpenters Unions of
this City in regard to the proposed
job which has been let to the Austin
Bridge Company, a notorious non-
union concern which has only brought
trouble and dissension the labor move-
ment in the City of Galveston, whether
they be organized or unorganized.
It was brought out at this meeting
that several union contractors in the
city had submitted bids, some of them
being lower than the bid as submitted
by the Austin Bridge Company, but
this non-union concern received the
contract, which is beyond our compre-
hension.
We are not criticizing the govern-
ment as of this action, but we are in-
formed that in a case of this kind that
the lowest bid submitted is usually the
concern that gets the contract.
Knowing in advance, or rather sur-
mising, that there is nothing that you
can do in regard to the fact as of this
contract being let to this “union bust-
ing” concern, might we ask of you
that this letter be sent to higher chan-
nels where they will be informed that
the organized labor movement in the
City of Galveston is deeply concerned
over .the fact that this contract was let
to the Austin Bridge Company.
Sincerely yours,
C. H. LINDBERG, Sect’y,
CHL/d Galveston Labor Council
Brother R. C. McKinley, president
of the Laundry Drivers Local No. 940,
requested of the delegates that they re-
port back to their respective organiza-
tions and ask of their wives not to send
their laundry to the Model Laundry
as this strike was still in full progress.
Brother Gritta declared the nomina-
tions in order for the office of ser-
geant-at-arms as of the resignation of
Brother Bob Faust, who had resigned
as delegate from the Bakers Union.
Brother Frank Bavoux nominated
Brother Edward Rayner and a motion
was made, seconded and carried that
nominations be closed and Brother
Rayner be elected by acclamation.
Same being executed.
Motion made to adjourn, which car-
By AFL News Service.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—One of the most
unusual frauds on the New York City
home relief fund was revealed here in
a case reported to Magistrate Rudich’s'
court by Albert Meyers, special inves-
tigator of the Department of Welfare.
Mr. Meyers testified that on Decem-
ber 11, 1936, a woman had been placed
on home relief on her assertion that
she had no means of support. From
that date until July 8, 1938, she re-
ceived $1,000 from home relief funds.
According to Meyer’s testimony, the
woman had $25,442 in nine banks while
she was receiving home relief. He
also testified that in addition to the
$25,442 he had discovered the woman
had a bank account totaling $9,114
under the name of a daughter, whom
he had been unable to locate.
Bi AFL News Service.
At a regular meeting of Bakers’
Local No. 407 Saturday night held in
the Cooks and Waiters Hall, officers
to serve for the next six months were
elected and plans for an anniversary
smoker to be held Aug. 6 were made.
A. Rothfuchs was re-elected as pres-
ident, and other officers were name as
follows: H. J. Trail, vice president; F.
J. Vento, -financial secretary and treas-
urer (re-elected); A. R. Weber, cor-
responding secretary (re-elected); Ju-
lius Strain, sergeant at arms; A. Hor-
ridge, chairman of board of trustees;
T. Alexander and J. H. Caulking,
trustees.
The smoker, to be held at the Cooks
and Waiters Hall, will be in celebra-
tion of the union’s first anniversary,
in which time-noted progress has been
made. The Pauls Bakery in Texas
City recently signed a contract with
Local 407, and others are now in line
July 25, 1938.
President B. A. Gritta was presiding
officer.
Brother Gritta stated that there was
a speaker from the Steel Workers
Uniono, A C.I.O. affiliate, who wished
to appear before the delegates and ad-
dress them in behalf of his union as of
their request for the Galveston County
Park. The request to appear before
the meeting was granted.
Brother Gritta introduced this speak-
er as Mr. Rasmussen, chairman of the
picnic committee for the Steel Workers
Lodge and the Reed Roller Bit Co. of
Houston. This young man requested
that the Galveston Labor Council no-
tify the County Commissioners Court
fhat we did not have any objections to
their using the Galveston County Park
for their picnic celebration. He was
then excused from the hall and this
question was brought up for debate.
As at the former meeting, it created
quite some debate, with the motion
being made and carried that the Gal-
veston Labor Council still remain neu-
tral in this controversy and that a let-
ter be sent to Mr. Sewall Meyer, at-
torney for the Texas State Federation
of Labor in Houston, Texas, that the
Galveston Labor Council had no au-
thority whatsoever to designate who
had the right to use these picnic
grounds for their picnics, and that we
were never consulted before as to who
the ground be let out to, and that the
County Commissioners themselves had
the sole and only right to designate
to whom these grounds should be let
out to for their picnics.
There was a motion made and sec-
onded that the minutes of the previous
meeting be adopted as read. The mo-
tion carried.
As of the request of the Motion Pic-
ture Operators Local Union No. 305
that the Galveston Labor Council en-
dorse their contracts. It was granted.
Report of Officers.
Motion made and carried that a
“victory supper” in honor of W. E.
Stone as of his being elected senator
of the 17th Senatorial District, be held
at John’s Oyster Resort Saturday
night at 8 p. m., July 30, and that each
delegate who attends this supper pay
his pro-rata per plate.
Brother Gritta also reported on the
I. L. A.-C. I. O. dispute now raging on
the water front in regards, to the Ban-
nana Carriers Local and stated that he
thought the A. F. of L. Unions had
this matter well in control.
At this particular time there was a
telegram received from Mr. Sewall
Meyer asking that we reconsider our
action as taken previously in this meet-
ing in regard to the request of the
Steel Workers Union as of their picnic
to be held at the Galveston County
Park. Motion made and carried that
the telegram be received and filed.
Brother Tom Bolton of the Operat-
ing Engineers registered an emphatic
protest against the letting of the con-
tract to the Austin Bridge Co. when
there was so many well-qualified union
contractors in the City of Galveston
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